Harry Potter author Jk Rowling is selling her home in Edinburgh’s Merchiston area after moving to a new home in the city. The home in Merchiston is where the much-lauded children’s author created the Harry Potter characters for the long-running wizard stories (which spawned the globally successful Harry Potter movies and it has been her home for some thirteen years.

Rowling bought the top half of the house for £425,000 in 1999 following on from the success of the early Potter novels, before buying out her downstairs neighbour and reinstated the property into a detached family home some time after. The eight-bedroom property has been put on the market for £2,250,000. It features five double bedrooms, a drawing room, a timber-framed summerhouse, landscaped gardens and its own library as well as an impressive security system that the author had to put up when the house became something of a pilgrimage site for diehard fans.

Rowling, who is believed to be worth an estimated £560m, purchased her new home in Edinburgh for £2m in December 2009, moving into it permanently last year. She also owns an estate in Perthshire and a townhouse in London. Recently, the author won planning permission to build two giant tree houses for her children in the garden of the new property.